Was Georgia Engel considered attractive?

The way Mary and Rhoda would behave as if Ted scored some hot babe on MTM Show was a bit far-fetched IMO

This number got the older male crowded heated up.

I suppose Marilyn Monroe in a Vivian Vance sort of way.

I believe it was revealed in her obituaries that she was black.

at least she was thin.

She was presented as the ditzy blonde compared to MTM and Rhoda's brunette sensibility. I mean, who else but an idiot would love/marry Ted Baxter?

[quote] I believe it was revealed in her obituaries that she was black.

That was Carol Channing.

I always thought Georgia Engel was Carol Channing's long-lost daughter.

I'm surprised Georgia Engel never got a poster. She would have rivaled Farrah.

Mary met Georgia in a dance class and that's how she ended up on the show. She had been on Broadway in Hello, Dolly with, I think, Merman.

I had a colleague who did theatre with Engel when they were both students at Hawaii. She said Engel was her ditzy persona even and very religious. My colleague could do a dead-on imitation of her 40 years later. Colleague also played Lady Capulet to Goldie Hawn’s Juliet in summer stock. She said it was clear even then that Hawn had “something”— but Hawn’s legend of showing up to auditions with role memorized a bit of an embellishment.

I think Engel looked best on “The Betty White Show” with her disco hair.

Geirgette’s original look made her look as though she’d shoved a hat on her head while her hair was still wet.

I kind of hated Georgette.

MTM tried to use her as a female friend for Mary to replace Rhoda, but the chemistry wasn’t there, and Georgette’s ditziness was too broad for the show.

They should’ve kept Sheree North as Lou’s girlfriend Charlene on as a friend for Mary. A saloon singer with an adventurous past would’ve provided a good contrast to Mary without feeling like a Rhoda replacement.

A much better blonde than dimwitted Georgette.

Sheree...another dancer.

Oops, I put this in the Theatre thread. Anyway - And of course Val...

r10 I thought MTM and Grant Tinker saw Engel in The House of Blue Leaves and thought she was so funny they gave her a guest spot that turned into a regular role eventually.

In her first appearance she is a fellow window dresser with Rhoda.

R17. Looks like we're both right. Found this online

Georgia was taking a ballet class on Hollywood Boulevard. Mary Tyler Moore was in the same ballet class, but Georgia didn’t recognize her. She was there with no make-up on.One day at the ballet bar, Moore told her that she and her husband, Grant Tinker had seen the show with a couple of friends and that they really loved it. Georgia found out later that it was Allan Ludden and Betty White. Georgia finished her run in House of Blue Leaves and six months later, she got a call to play a tiny

I'm guessing she played a nun, r18?

R19. Probably started as a nun then moved up into the role of Corinna.

She had a long line of suitors, George Peppard, Henry Kissenger, Charles Bronson, Richard Widmark to name a few.

That type of ditzy creeps me out. It's retarded adjacent. I picture straight men fantasizing her whisper lisp "Oh no! What's that between your legs? Jee willickers golly my bottom feels funny!"

Engel always read as an old lady to me, maybe it's because her hair was essentially white and that she was paired with Knight who was older. She was sort of similar to Carol Channing in that they both seemed Muppet-adjacent, not exactly real people.

Rumored lover of Anton LaVey.

She was...damn...nice.

Georgia’s sister Robin was a former Miss Hawaii. Their dad was very handsome.

IMO, not handsome, R26.

I disliked the Georgette character. It was not so bad when Rhoda was there.

She was so ditzy and that was supposed to be uproariously funny. The fellow actors didn't even seem to know how to play off of the Georgette character (except Ted).

Would have been interesting to see Georgette in a scene with Phyllis. In real life, a Phyllis wouldn't and couldn't stand Georgette.

R28, Phyllis and Georgette had a few scenes together on Rhoda.

I remember my father had her Oui magazine cover framed in his office.

[quote] I believe it was revealed in her obituaries

How many times did she die???

She was a one persona actress but she stayed in her lane and made that persona work in several roles. She was quite funny on Everybody Loves Raymond.

^^^ and in The Drowsy Chaperone

Georgia left a string of broken hearts across Hollywood. Robert Redford almost left acting completely after she broke it off with him because LA held too many painful memories of the happiness he found with Georgia. And the tabloids had a field day after Ryan O'Neal and Warren Beatty got into a fistfight at a Golden Globes afterparty over who could go home with Georgia that night.

Teenage boys all over America had posters of Georgia Engel in a bathing suit up on their bedrooms walls. She had one erect nipple, which drove them into a sexual frenzy, and her hair was attractively tousled.

r35, I think you're confusing her with Danielle Brisebois.

VERY nice lady. Devout Christian Scientist. Her last musical was called Halftime, about elderly people performing at halftime in basketball games. During rehearsals for that show, she had cancer, and as a Christian Scientist wouldn’t see a doctor about it. During rehearsals she was in unendurable pain, and was often seen praying desperately, looking for God to help her. He didn’t.

Georgia Engel definitely had something, but Suzanne Pleshette was the real deal.